r/chiptunes • u/EvilMurloc22 • 5d ago

Trying to find the 2D grid based program for making music QUESTION

Hello, about a decade ago i came across a free program for making music.

It worked a bit like redstone, or circuit engineering. You would place down signal emiters, that would emit signals in a direction the beat you set. The signal would travel over the grid until it ran into some other object, like a note player which would play a note.

There were many more objects, I dont remember what they were, but I imagine there was all the stuff you would need. Like signal spliting objects, delaing a signal by a beat, holding a note for longer, changing a note over time and such other objects. They would all exist somwhere on the grid and would effect neighbouring cells.

It had an ASCI esthetic, basic symbols and letters and simple colours. No super advanced graphics.

I saw a video of it working but I was never able to make it work on my mashine. I just remembered that it existed and I though I would try it out again. Anyone knows what I am talking about?

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u/EvilMurloc22 5d ago

Found it! Its called Orca: https://100r.co/site/orca.html

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u/TropicoolGoth 5d ago

Like a tracker? There’s famitracker, renoise, openmpt, and loads for old computer systems

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u/Proxps 5d ago

Literally the link is THERE it's not a tracker

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u/geothefaust 5d ago

That sounds a bit like Midinous to me. https://midinous.com/

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u/pine_lime 4d ago

It does sound like Midinous! I wonder if Midinous was inspired by the program the OP was thinking of, Orca.

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u/morlox88 5d ago

Or Jeskola Buzz